Planning does not make space for women, children, and
the informal
The way cities are planned and built reveals a disconnect and inequity in how they treat the marginalised, the informal workers, women…
Interviews
‘Build the roads and bridges
for the Kumbh, but save
the Godavari’
Maharashtra’s ancient city, Nashik, by the Godavari is on an overdrive to prepare for the Kumbh Mela 2027 where the devout gather…
The unheard stories of people’s struggle and protest for water
Protests for the simplest of human needs – water – took place in many cities and towns of India this summer, from…
‘What’s the strategic component in Great Nicobar? The logic is entirely financial’
The dense forest of 130 square kilometres in the Great Nicobar, an area equivalent to 38 percent of Mumbai, faces total erasure…
‘Riverfront development is the murder of rivers, turning rivers into drains.’
“The Aravari taught me to flow like water,” says Dr Rajendra Singh, renowned water conservationist, in this interview, explaining how the work…
‘There comes a tipping point when people say enough
is enough’
In the past few years, Dehradun went from being a salubrious hill city to having summer temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius, floods…
‘Rivers are not meant to die because of our mistakes’
The Musi could have been the defining characteristic of Hyderabad, the cyber city, as it was in history when it filled over…
‘The Yamuna is a living and breathing thing. We are systematically killing it’
Although India’s vision of a river was historically been influenced by the British, urban plans in contemporary India too do not have…
‘Without money, municipal bodies cannot fulfil their role or deliver the mandate given to them’
The elections to 29 municipal corporations and other urban local bodies in Maharashtra as well as discussions about elections in Bengaluru, Delhi…
‘Aesthetics not an after-thought or beautification, it’s harmony of city spaces and environment’
Cities become beautiful not only because of the quality of architecture but how it intermingles with nature, other life forms, and visual…